Vanguard Group

Vanguard files for new ex-China emerging markets ETF

ASSET management giant Vanguard Group plans to launch a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that will target emerging markets while excluding China, joining a growing niche shaped by investor debate over C...

Blackstone has a number of private markets strategies that retail investors can tap.

Blackstone, Vanguard, Wellington to launch private markets fund

Traditional asset managers have been seeking ways to move beyond stock and bond funds into higher-margin businesses, including private equity and private credit

Fees on new ETFs are rising, rather than falling, as had been the trend for decades. Most funds set up in the past few years have fees of 0.5 per cent or higher.

How cheap can investing get?

The answer depends on whether speculators resist zany ETFs

Vanguard unleashed its largest-ever fee reduction this week, slashing its average asset-weighted expense ratio to just 0.07 per cent across its US$10 trillion under management – a sliver of the industry average of 0.44 per cent.

Vanguard’s record fee cuts tighten screws on BlackRock, Invesco

Vanguard estimates the move will generate US$350 million this year in investor savings – another phrase for lost revenue

Lulu International Holdings sold 3.10 billion shares, or a 30 per cent stake, at 2.04 dirhams apiece, the top of a marketed range.

Grocer Lulu’s US$1.72 billion Abu Dhabi IPO draws Vanguard, GIC

HYPERMARKET chain operator Lulu Retail Holdings’s US$1.72 billion Abu Dhabi initial public offering drew orders worth US$37 billion, including from global investors Vanguard Group and Singapore sovere...

Fidelity says in its application that portfolio managers who oversee dual-class funds can engage in “careful tax management”.

Fidelity aims to break into an ETF market dominated by Vanguard

FIDELITY Investments is seeking clearance that would allow some of its best-known mutual funds to also operate as exchange-traded funds (ETF), becoming the largest firm to challenge Vanguard Group’s f...

The US asset management giant decided earlier this year to shutter businesses in China and exit the advisory venture.

Vanguard sells stake in Ant joint venture, accelerating China exit

VANGUARD Group unloaded its 49 per cent stake in a robo-advisory joint venture with Jack Ma-backed Ant Group, accelerating its exit from China’s 29 trillion yuan (S$5.45 trillion) mutual fund market.

The select committee on China alleges BlackRock has five funds with more than US$429 million invested in Chinese companies acting against US interests.

Blackrock, fund managers brace for even more scrutiny over China

BLACKROCK, MSCI and other firms are bracing for tighter oversight following a congressional probe over investments in Chinese companies deemed to be national security threats and an executive order cu...

Vanguard, with US$7.1 trillion in assets under management globally, owns a 49 per cent stake in the Ant-controlled JV.

Vanguard to exit China funds JV with Ant, close Shanghai office: sources

US fund giant Vanguard Group is shutting its main Shanghai office and exiting from a joint venture with Ant Group, five sources with knowledge of the matter said, moves that will end its six-year pres...

BlackRock, Vanguard brace for a fresh year of Treasuries losses

BlackRock, Vanguard brace for a fresh year of Treasuries losses

[NEW YORK] Negative annual returns in US Treasuries are rare, and when they do pop up, for a generation they have always been followed by a rebound. BlackRock and Vanguard Group see that relationship ...